Public Safety: Man's body found on trail at fence by border agents

SOUTH COUNTY: Border Patrol agents found a man's body on a horse trail in the Tijuana River Valley early Friday.

The Medical Examiner's Office said Demicio Contreras-Ignacio, 34, of San Diego, had drowned. Agents who found the body reported that he was wearing a wet suit under street clothes.

The body was discovered about 1:30 a.m. at the west end of Monument Road at Border Field State Park. –P.R. & G.G.

Cadillac hits light pole, killing one, injuring two

VISTA: One person died and two others were critically injured when the Cadillac they were in hit a light pole at Guajome Street and South Santa Fe Avenue about 5 p.m. yesterday, sheriff's officials said.

The car was traveling at a high speed and the driver lost control, officials said. One person died at the scene and the other two were hospitalized, sheriff's and fire officials said. –B.W.

Victim in fiery crash was a Marine lance corporal

SAN DIEGO: A driver who was killed in a fiery crash last weekend has been identified as Amanda Faith Kennah, 28, of Poway, the Medical Examiner's Office said yesterday.

Kennah, a lance corporal in the Marines, was driving a Kia Spectra at a high speed on southbound Interstate 15 on Jan. 31, authorities said.

She lost control and struck water barrels under the state Route 52 overpass, causing the car to burst into flames. She and her passenger, Bruce G. Molina, Jr., 32, of Pala, died at the scene. –K.D.

Two horses, six rabbits killed in blaze at barn

EL CAJON: Two miniature horses and at least six rabbits were killed in a pre-dawn barn blaze in Granite Hills yesterday, authorities said.

The fire was reported shortly before 5 a.m. at a horse-boarding facility on Granite Hills Drive at Fourth Street in unincorporated El Cajon, said San Miguel Fire District spokesman Leonard Villarreal.

Firefighters from Lemon Grove, Lakeside, La Mesa and Cal Fire joined crews from San Miguel to fight the second-alarm blaze.

The crews rescued four horses and about a dozen rabbits from corrals and cages in the barn, but two miniature horses and at least six rabbits perished in the flames.

Sheriff's bomb and arson personnel are investigating. –K.D.

Driver arrested, accused of hitting bicyclist, fleeing

MIRA MESA: A 19-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of felony hit-and-run yesterday morning after allegedly striking a bicyclist with her car and then returning to the scene a half-hour later, San Diego police said.

The woman was driving a Volvo on Calle Cristobal near Camino Miranda about 9:20 a.m. when she drifted into the bike lane and struck the bicyclist from behind, police said.

The bicyclist, 51, suffered a serious head injury, as well as injuries to his back and sides, and was hospitalized.

The driver didn't stop but returned to the scene 30 minutes later, when she was arrested. Alcohol did not appear to be a factor in the crash, police said. –K.D.

Man surrenders to police during fire at tire store

EAST COUNTY: A man turned himself into police at the scene of a tire store fire in El Cajon early yesterday after he broke into his former girlfriend's home in Lakeside and threatened her with a gun, authorities said.